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Flute of the Misty Sea, The

Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
Jecklin Musikhaus - JD 699-2
1996

Track	Titel	Kanji	Länge	Künstler
1	Kotoji no Kyoku	琴柱の曲	04'33	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	The meaning of the title is far from clear. The piece is played today as an introduction to longer pieces. Its origin is unknown and only in 1927 was it adopted into the collection of authentic honkyoku by Miura Kindo. Possibly it is a fragment of a longer piece.
2	Mukaiji Reibo	霧海箎鈴慕	17'40	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	One of the three central pieces of the Kinko school. Kinko had learned it in 1728 from Ikkei in Nagasaki. According to legend this piece originated in the 14th century when the priest Kichiku conceived it in a dream. The title means "Flute of the Misty Sea".
3	Sayama Sugagaki	佐山菅垣	12'07	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	Sugagaki is an old designation of a piece of music. It seems that these pieces originated in an secular tradition of shakuhachi playing. They are played a bit faster than pieces from the Buddhist tradition. Like some other pieces the title refers to the name of a place: Sayama, a name of a unknown village. Kurosawa Kinko had learned it from the priest Ikkei in Nagasaki.
4	Igusa Reibo	葦草鈴慕	13'55	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	Little is known about the origin of this piece. Kurosawa Kinko had learned it from the priest Yuko who seems to have helped him with the compilation of the 36 honkyoku. Igusa is some sort of reed, Reibo designates a high rank among the pieces of the Kinko school.
5	Yugure no Kyoku	夕暮の曲	13'56	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	This is one of the programmatic pieces, which are not part of the religious tradition of the Kinko school. The title means "a piece for the evening dusk". According to a legend it was inspired by the sound if the evening bell of the Chion temple in Kyoto. Kurosawa Kinko had learned this piece from the Priest Hanrin at the Ichigetsu temple.